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Tuscaloosa City Council approves development plan for Riverfront Village

Riverfront Village

An artist's rendering shows Riverfront Village, a mixed-use development proposed for the former Tuscaloosa Chevrolet site at the corner of Greensboro Avenue and Jack Warner Parkway in downtown Tuscaloosa. Greensboro Avenue is pictured on the left side and Jack Warner Parkway is pictured on the right side of the rendering. (Submitted by Chance Partners)

View full sizeAn artist's rendering shows Riverfront Village, a mixed-use development proposed for the former Tuscaloosa Chevrolet site at the corner of Greensboro Avenue and Jack Warner Parkway in downtown Tuscaloosa. Apartments are pictured along Jack Warner Parkway. (Submitted by Chance Partners)

Riverfront Village would be comprised of 192,411 square feet for residential units and 38,482 square feet of commercial space across five buildings, according to the plans Kritzman presented last week.

It would feature 202 rental units with 438 beds, five three-bedroom townhomes for sale in the upper $300,000s-lower $400,000s range, and retail units from 800-4,000 square feet to accommodate boutiques and shops, larger stores and restaurants. Plans call for a total of 602 on-site parking spaces, including 182 on the street and remaining spaces in a parking deck for tenants.

For the residential units, Chance Partners is targeting young professionals, young married couples, empty-nesters and UA graduate, law and undergraduate students.

Kritzman said on April 2 that his firm put an emphasis on the community aspect of the property, an approximately seven-acre site along the Riverwalk recreational trail and just east of the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. He has said the design, intended to foster connectivity and openness, maintains views by varying the heights of buildings, has no fences outside of a parking deck gate, complements downtown and creates an urban, walkable community.

Tuscaloosa City Councilman Lee Garrison, a longtime proponent of development along the Black Warrior River, said last week that he appreciated the thought that the developers put into planning Riverfront Village to go next to the amphitheater, the Bank of Tuscaloosa building and other recent developments along the riverfront.

"I believe that when we started the riverfront committee that Mary Ann Phelps chaired 10-12 years ago, that's what we wanted to see," Garrison said. "It's just an incredible day, in my opinion, for Tuscaloosa. This is going to be another incredible project for our community."

Riverfront Village would be the fourth development from Chance Partners in the downtown area. The company completed the five-unit Townhomes at Metal Works and that Boulevard Lofts, a mixed-used development on University Boulevard near City Hall, last year and started work on the Green Bear, a mixed-used development at the northeast corner of Paul W. Bryant Drive and Greensboro Avenue, earlier this year.